Gayler: Aviation branch returning to 'warfighting' focus

By Courtney McBride / April 3, 2018 at 9:58 AM
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- The Army's aviation branch is "in a relatively healthy posture right now," thanks in part to congressional appropriations, but like the rest of the force is shifting its focus toward a potential near-peer adversary, according to the branch chief. Maj. Gen. William Gayler, commanding general of the Aviation Center of Excellence and Ft. Rucker, AL, said in a March 26 interview the community has "tend[ed] to migrate to teaching technical things at the expense of warfighting things."...

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